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  1. the world was supposed to end years ago on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    according to Al Bore, Greenpeace and dozens of climate models i've read about over the decades. our cities were supposed to have been devastated by super-hurricanes, F5 tornadoes and the rising ocean and these things keep getting pushed back and back

  2. Re:competition is good but where does the money go on Spotify Raises $526 Million As Apple Charges Into Streaming · · Score: 1

    you want money you have to play live. the era of living off royalties, reselling your music in new formats and greatest hits collections is over

  3. Re:Why? on NASA Releases Massive Climate Change Data Set · · Score: 1

    i used to wear winter clothing in June in NYC back in the 80's

  4. Re:the plumbing of the 21st century on San Francisco Public Schools To Require Computer Science For Preschoolers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    yeah, 10 years ago i had an electrician tell me how he spent $68,000 renovating his living room right before he gave me a quote for $3000 for some new outlets in the kitchen

  5. the plumbing of the 21st century on San Francisco Public Schools To Require Computer Science For Preschoolers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    this is why i'm going to make sure my kids know to use computers and possibly program as tools and background knowledge but go to school for something really valuable like advanced math

  6. Re:Entrepreneurs are not business people on You'll Totally Believe Why These Startups Failed · · Score: 2

    no, most of these ideas are about as stupid as buying a Palm Pilot in the 90's and spending an hour a day inputting data into it to save an hour organizing your day. or they try to copy some existing business model under some cool hype and don't deliver

  7. Re:The 90's all over again... on You'll Totally Believe Why These Startups Failed · · Score: 2

    the 90's had eyeballs. tens of millions of them.

  8. Re:Not Just That Machine on Report: Evidence of Healthcare Breaches Lurks On Infected Medical Devices · · Score: 1

    something like 10 years ago i would joke that we should block all traffic at work from china and eastern europe. doesn't take a genius to do that

  9. Re:A business decision on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    except that homes and cars are hard assets the banks can sell to mitigate the losses or rent out for income to lessen losses. student loans are not.

    if you let people discharge their loans then a lot of lenders won't loan out as much money and we go back to the old way where you have to work full time to pay for school. which is how a lot of people who went 30-40 years ago paid for it. working full time, ROTC or GI Bill/Army College Fund.

    i want to see some whiny millenials whine about having to join the army to pay for school

  10. This guy lives in Montclair, crazy expensive on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 2

    he writes for the NY Times, lives in the same town where Tony Soprano lived in a home most likely worth over $1 million, sends his kids to some of the best public schools in the USA and doesn't want to pay back the loans that paid for the education that got him here.

    i might have to restructure my loans with my wife and do the same thing and let you suckers pay them off

  11. the prices are getting beyond ridiculous on Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    i grew up before we had cable and the extra channels were awesome at first. but with so much crap now in the basic tier including ESPN which a lot of sports fans don't even watch the prices too high. and lately everyone is adding a sports news channel or some other me too channel to the basic tier and asking for more money.

    they have the extra streaming add ons for a lot of channels but they limit the episodes to a few at a time and it's a crazy system where you have to have the right TV provider.

  12. Re:Google Fiber on Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    Google Fiber TV is the same price

  13. imagine an iphone on Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM · · Score: 0

    of those

    terabytes of data in my pocket

  14. can you finally run apps through a phone? on Hyundai Now Offers an Android Car, Even For Current Owners · · Score: 1

    like i can with IOS? i can have music playing via some app and run a nav app and the music will cut out for the voice to remind me of the next turn

    galaxy note 3 i can't listen to pandora or spotify or google music through the USB port in the car

  15. how much money does particle physics make? on Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? · · Score: 2

    not as much as billions of $$$$ of some new drug that may or may not work and by the time the lawsuits come you are rich and retired

  16. too bad it doesn't work with banks on The Body Cam Hacker Who Schooled the Police · · Score: 4, Funny

    give me all of your money!
    OK, here is a job counting it

  17. Re:Is anyone else bothered? on Grand Theft Auto V Keeps Raking In Money · · Score: 3, Funny

    nope, my kids love it

  18. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    gas taxes are for state highways. county and local roads are paid for by property taxes

  19. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 3, Insightful

    tolls need infrastructure which costs money to run

  20. Re:Compelling? on Why Apple Ditched Its Plan To Build a Television · · Score: 1

    just like kids listening to U2 and "alternative music" in the 80's and 90's. oldest marketing trick in the book. sell something to millions of people by making it seem you are unique and special and part of a small select group buying that product

  21. and it would only work with other apple products on Why Apple Ditched Its Plan To Build a Television · · Score: 0

    i can skype on my xbox via kinect with anyone who has a skype client. apple would have to go all rainman and build in compatibility with other products. into the product and not as a standalone app.

  22. Re:Substantially correct, but . . . on Book Review: The Terrorists of Iraq · · Score: 1

    and after WW2 we allowed the Nazis to remain in power under a different name where in Iraq we kicked out anyone in the Baath party and made them unemployable and then wondered why people began to shoot back at us

  23. Re:Too Bad For North Carolinians! on North Carolina Still Wants To Block Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    buy a new house at kechter. they all have brand new wiring which is better than what i've seen in the older sections of the city

  24. Re:So, we're going to get Toyota clones? on The Auto Industry May Mimic the 1980s PC Industry · · Score: 2

    the value of the tesla is in the software

  25. expect to pay $$ on In-Database R Coming To SQL Server 2016 · · Score: 2

    expect it to be in the enterprise version at $7000 a physical CPU core